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PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 149-162Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0963662510393624
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ELSI; public funding; science funding; science policy; synthetic biology
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [I 215, I 490] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund FWF [I 215] Funding Source: Medline
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We analysed the decisions of major European public funding organisations to fund or not to fund synthetic biology (SB) and related ethical, legal and social implication (ELSI) studies. We investigated the reaction of public organisations in six countries (Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK) towards SB that may influence SB's further development in Europe. We examined R&D and ELSI communities and their particular funding situation. Our results show that the funding situation for SB varies considerably among the analysed countries, with the UK as the only country with an established funding scheme for R&D and ELSI that successfully integrates these research communities. Elsewhere, we determined a general lack of funding (France), difficulties in funding ELSI work (Switzerland), lack of an R&D community (Austria), too small ELSI communities (France, Switzerland, Netherlands), or difficulties in linking existing communities with available funding sources (Germany), partly due to an unclear SB definition.
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